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Tuan, Hsiao-Lin – 1991
Research on teacher education has been shifting from the emphasis on changing teachers' behaviors to investigating how teachers' mental thinking influences their teaching behaviors. Teachers' beliefs and planning are two important components among teacher thinking research. The purposes of this study are to uncover preservice secondary science…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Higher Education, Interviews, Lesson Plans
Workman, Mary Burke – 1990
This study investigated the effects of grouping patterns in a cooperative learning environment on the mathematics achievement of two high school geometry classes. Heterogeneous, homogenous, random, mixed gender and single gender grouping patterns were coordinated with six similar geometry topics and students were grouped accordingly for a period…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Cooperative Learning, Educational Environment
Tobin, Kenneth, Ed.; And Others – 1990
This book is the result of the accumulated research of five researchers from the United States and Australia on a school in Coastal Australia. The research team shared a constructivist epistemology and interpreted the qualitative and quantitative data collected over a 10-week period in two classrooms from that perspective. Each chapter discusses…
Descriptors: Biology, Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures
Campbell, Roald F. – 1987
A coauthor of a book on the history of thought and practice in educational administration reflects on issues raised during the writing of the book as follows: (1) Categories of administrative thought are difficult to establish. Two categories were derived from Richard Scott's rational systems approach--scientific management and bureaucracy. The…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Educational Administration, Educational History
Galligani, Dennis J. – 1988
In the summer of 1987, a qualitative evaluation report was published regarding the outcomes from 20 school/college partnership projects for enhancement of college preparatory curricula sponsored by the California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP) between 1984 and 1987. Most CAPP projects involve college and university faculty working together…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Faculty, College Preparation, Cooperative Programs
Eppele, Ruth – 1989
This 27-item bibliography represent the diversity of articles added to the ERIC database from 1983 to 1988 on the uses of ethnography and personal narrative in education. Included are conflicting opinions concerning the appropriateness of using this form of qualitative research to describe accurately problems within the classroom and to prescribe…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cultural Context, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Hedges, Helen; Cullen, Joy – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2005
The concept of "subjects" has posed a philosophical dilemma and polarised debate within early childhood education. Consequently, little attention has been paid to teachers' and children's subject knowledge and the role these might play in early childhood curriculum and pedagogy to extend and enhance children's learning. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Curriculum Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Venkatachary, Ranga; Kumar, Muthu – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2005
One of the key arguments for problem-based learning as a holistic, learner centred pedagogical method rests on the premise it addresses multiple facets of learner development rather than decontextualised, content related learning outcomes. Fostering meta-cognitive ability in an attempt to develop self regulatory, autonomous learning habits is an…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Case Studies, Self Management, Student Attitudes
Mantero, Miguel – TESL-EJ, 2005
This research investigates the beliefs and self-reported practices of teachers in an elementary school in the Southeastern United States, where the English Language Learner (ELL) population has grown significantly over the past ten years. The findings describe and clarify mainstream teachers' beliefs regarding the academic preparation of ELLs, as…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Elementary School Students, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs

Parr, Patricia Chapman; Krashen, Stephen D. – System, 1986
Two studies of elementary, intermediate, and advanced second language learners indicated that involuntary rehearsal of second languages ("Din in the Head") is more frequently experienced by elementary and intermediate students and much less prevalent among advanced students, suggesting that the phenomenon is related to language…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, College Students, Higher Education, Interlanguage

Chatman, Elfreda A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Reports on a study of the awareness, use, and diffusion of job information in a low-income population as a test of diffusion theory. A review of the literature is included and major models are reexamined with information rather than technology as the innovation. Implications for librarians are discussed. (EM)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Diffusion (Communication), Economically Disadvantaged, Information Seeking

Finley, Fred N. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1986
Examines the use of clinical interviews as a complement to more typical achievement tests. The research focused on the learning outcomes resulting from second grade students' viewing of television program on magnets. Results indicated that clinical interviews provided evidence of effective instruction when achievement tests did not. (ML)
Descriptors: Educational Television, Educational Testing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Howley, Craig B. – 2002
A review of research yields nine conclusions concerning mathematics achievement among rural and urban students. Among them are that currently a national rural vs. non-rural mathematics achievement gap does not exist; at the state level, a rural vs. non-rural achievement gap exists in 40 percent of the states, and that gap is evenly split between…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Educational Attainment, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. – 2000
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) was created in 1987 to foster the success of the Baldrige National Quality Program. The award program, sponsored by the United States Department of Education, is a public-private partnership dedicated to improving national competitiveness. The National Institute of Standards and Technology…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Awards, Case Studies, Community Colleges
Sampson-Cordle, Alice Vera – 2001
This study examined the relationship between a small rural school in northeast Georgia and its surrounding community. Three teachers, two community members, and three students used cameras to collect data related to their perceptions of the school-community relationship. They created photographs, then wrote about their photos, and finally, held…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Relations, Community Study, Elementary Secondary Education